
The MDGs were concrete, specific and measurable, and therefore helped establish some priority areas of focus in international development. These eight goals, set by the United Nations back in 2000 to eradicate poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease, expire at the end of this year.įigure 1: The Millennium Development Goals The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – part of a wider 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The good news? After three years of negotiations and debate, 193 countries had agreed to a set of development goals more bold and ambitious than anything that has come before them. DSDG aims to help facilitate this engagement.“I am pleased to share some good news for people and planet,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said to a packed room of press delegates. Ownership of the SDGs must translate into a strong commitment by all stakeholders to implement the global goals. DSDG plays a key role in the evaluation of UN systemwide implementation of the 2030 Agenda and on advocacy and outreach activities relating to the SDGs. Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), partnershipsĪnd Small Island Developing States. Transport, science and technology, the Global Substantive support and capacity-building for the SDGs and their related thematic issues, including water, energy, Today, the Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) provides

Now, the annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development serves as the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the SDGs.Paris Agreement on Climate Change (December 2015).Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with its 17 SDGs was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development.Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development (July 2015).Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (March 2015).2015 was a landmark year for multilateralism and international policy shaping, with the adoption of several major agreements:.Sustainable Development, with 17 SDGs at its core, at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in September 2015. The process culminated in the subsequent adoption of the 2030 In January 2015, the General Assembly began the negotiation process on the post-2015 development agenda.In 2013, the General Assembly set up a 30-member Open Working Group to develop a proposal on the SDGs.Measures for implementing sustainable development, including mandates for future programmes of work in development financing, small island developing states In which they decided, inter alia, to launch a process to develop a set of SDGs to build upon the MDGs and to establish the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012, Member States adopted the outcome document "The.Global community's commitments to poverty eradication and the environment, and built on Agenda 21 and the Millennium Declaration by including more emphasis on multilateral partnerships. The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation, adopted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa in 2002, reaffirmed the.The SummitĮight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015. Member States unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York.


Plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.
